Narayan Apte

Narayan Apte (1911-15 November 1949) was an Indian teacher who planned the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1949 with the gunman, Nathuram Godse.

Biography
Narayan Apte was born in 1911 in British India, and he accepted a teaching job in Ahmednagar in 1932. In 1939, he joined the nationalist Hindu Mahasabha party, and on 22 July 1944 he led protests against Mahatma Gandhi in Panchagani in opposition to Gandhi's socialist policies. He planned Gandhi's assassination in 1948, believing that Gandhi's assassination would reunite India and Pakistan and that he would be revered by the Indian people when he would be an old man. He was present at the site of Gandhi's assassination, and on 15 November 1949 he was executed by hanging for his role in the murder.